Windows Phone's "Best of 2012" features a local favorite

Microsoft has posted a "Best of 2012" app collection in the Windows Phone Store. The "Best of 2012" list includes thirty apps and games such as Wordament, Weave, ARMED!, Weather Flow and a local favorite... the official Windows Phone Central app!

We have to tip our hat to Jay Bennett for burning the midnight oil on several occasions to develop and update a really nice app. We also would like to thank you, our readers, for helping make the app and the website as successful as it is. 2012 has been a whirlwind of a year and it's nice to see it end on such a high note.

You can find the Windows Phone "Best of 2012" collection here in the Windows Phone Store and if you want to jump straight to the Windows Phone Central app you can find it here. There's a trial version available and the full version is just $.99.

There notification use to work before. Now it don't work. I have not gotten no more notification and have open app now every certain times to check for updates. Still buggy. Anyone having same issue? I also uninstall it and reinstall and still no notification. Again it use to work before.

Well done with the app. App dev has, I believe, a large portion of the blame with 'playing nice' with WP8 - your live tile always on, always checking in, and I have no issues. So kudos on this app - even from a dev point of view.

Without a doubt, the absolute best Windows Phone app on the market for getting relevant WP news! Now Daniel and Jay, just be a little more consistent with your podcast timeframes and you've got a true winner!

As a fellow lead developer and company CTO, I also strongly agree! The WPC app is a shining example of what a metro app can be. It's highly functional, very intuitive to use, quick and feels lightweight. The developer should be congratulated as that balance is not easy to obtain! A counter example is the official Facebook app which is the absolute opposite. If Jay has any spare time he should have a stab at doing an FB app replacement! ;)

I have owned the HD2, HD7, the Focus Flash, Focus 2, Lumia 900, 820, 8X and now the 920 and every since I had the HD7 as my first WP device (the HD2 came later more as a hobby thing) I have had this app. I have seen it grow so much and I even got an AT&T store employee to use it and refer to it when he wanted to know something about the platform that AT&T did not provide info on. Bottom line wpc rocks and I support it as much as I support wp7.x/8. Keep up the great work! "WPC #1 in Windows Phone news!"